Here's a cheap trick to amuse yourself when you get bored.

Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd, OK) and enter the following command:
title I am a DOS god!
then check out the title bar of the command window.
Of course you'll want to substitute your own text string for your own amusement.

Hey that was fun! I made mine say I like tacos!

good one dude !!

nope for me
'I' is not recognised as an internal or external command

XP home perhaps

Same here

This is due to not adding the Command title in from of your message.

It needs to look like this in the dos window.
C:\......>title [Your Message Here]

ohh i get it now. wow i really feel like an idiot.

What does it organial say??

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe

Thanks

You're welcome, 8100 Power.

lol i did this for about 10 minutes.....i felt stupied afterwords kinda addicting!

Well kinda Nice Trick give it 4 out of 5 stars
Just a little thinking though,malware writers may apply this trick on renaming the Command prompt if possible...

Nah, the title is for the window only, new command windows will bear the original title.

THAT WAS A GOOD ONE...

Well,ok made mines "black board"

is there a site that has all of the commands you can do with command prompt and what they do, for example a site that would say.

ipconfig
regedit

I'm just interested in learning a little about the command prompt and what all you can do with it.
also what is the command to send a message to an IP?

Like this? Command-line reference A-Z

Nice.... you the fact that you can use caps makes it better.

Amusing command, thanks.

i thought i was a really a game hhahahaha you fooled me but its nice

you can also type in "help" without the "" and it will display the basic commands.

I didn't think I would bother, but it is good to see "I am the greatest!" up there. Hehe... Thanks!

Does anybody know the DOS equivalent to the UNIX WHO command?

How could they do that? This trick just changes the title of the screen, not the program itself.

you can to the same thing with the prompt itself,

run cmd, type prompt "whatever you want it say"

ex.. if you type prompt i am cool
your c: prompt will look like this

i am cool_

Good trick..

Good one!

linux rules looks very good in the tittle bar

Nice one! Thanks a lot!

~VirtueOfPanda~

Cool!

here's one guys try this: this is a good way of scaring people in busy places as it gives a cool matrix tracking effect.
copy and paste this to notepad:

@echo off
color 0a
:top
echo %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%%random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random% %random%
goto top

then save file to your desktop as: phone line hack.bat
now go to command prompt and change your writing to green by going properties - colours - screen text red: 0 green: 255 blue: 0 and leave your background black.
in the same command prompt window type in this:
prompt Welcome to the Matrix [your name].........tracking phone line.......... (now pres enter) now type in: cls (press enter 6 times and adjust the screen size to fit the writing.) minimize this and open the notepad (batch file) you made earlier then maximise this command prompt on top - that says welcome and just watch peoples faces as they walk by =)

come on guys don't use and abuse lets have some replies......

that's pretty cool. I'll have to remember that one next time I go to walmart.

okay, i dont understand.
how do i change my writing? i cant do it from command prompt for all ive tried, but, i could be wrong.
help me out here please.




nevermind, im an idiot. i figured it out.

Methinks the fact that you figured it out belies the fact that you are not an idiot.


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For all of us using a Debian based Linux distro (like Ubuntu) try this:

Does anyone know how to set that on a delay? Nothing I've tried works

LOL Good Tricks!

This is cool

Try: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl it's a star wars movie!!! made by command prompt!!! :D

did u just write <>I?
or <>title I

sorry if i misunderstood.... but it should work so long as you type

title witty

and your title should become "witty"

hope it helps

Hello.


I just use the ping. For example:



Time is in milliseconds.

It will make the screen display could not find the host though.

With Regards,
The Panda

Nice tricks

That was fun. I haven't done anything with the DOS prompt in years.
I also wanted to tell tg911 that I love the signature... good sense of humor.
Les...photo recovery

Wow! Thats good.

lol..hahaha, nice one!